Party sources say MPs elected in 2025 are expected to be featured in the shakeup. Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is set to announce a shuffling of his critic roles and front bench, according to Conservative sources, as he looks to adapt his messaging to Prime Minister Mark Carney's majority government. The shuffle comes almost three months after Opposition MPs with...
The Head of the International Energy Agency said the current geopolitical moment presents a “once in a lifetime opportunity” for Canada to be a “real energy export superpower,” but it needs to move quickly. In a fireside conversation with finance minister François-Philippe Champagne on Monday, Fatih Birol said trust and predictability should be at the centre of Canada’s export strategy...
Canada's former chief trade negotiator says he doesn't expect Ottawa to reach a tariff deal with Washington before the U.S. midterm elections. Steve Verheul says while there could be a window ahead of the midterms this fall when the U.S. administration is looking for a win, he thinks it's more likely that negotiations stretch into next year. He says he...
Heritage Minister Marc Miller said Monday the Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg made "an error" in its presentation of an exhibit about displaced Palestinians.
The foundation in charge of the fundraiser to restore 24 Sussex says it has received more than $100,000 in donations since Prime Minister Mark Carney announced plans to renovate the heritage residence. Rideau Hall Foundation CEO Teresa Marques says in an emailed statement the group is "humbled and moved" by an influx of donations by individual Canadians over the weekend...
The latest Weekly Federal Tracker from Liaison Strategies shows the Liberal Party, led by Prime Minister Mark Carney, holding an 8-point lead over Pierre Poilievre's Conservatives. Among decided and leaning voters, the Liberals stand at 42%, followed by the Conservatives at 34%, the NDP at 13%, and the Bloc Québécois at 6%.
Canadian economic sentiment remains stable. The Bloomberg‑Nanos index stood at 50.88, up from 50.70 four weeks earlier and close to neutral. Current conditions eased slightly, with the pocketbook measure at 51.82, while expectations rose to 49.93. Overall levels remain below the longer-term average of 54.73 and the recent peak of 54.19, suggesting a broadly balanced but somewhat cautious economic outlook.
In the 2015 British election, the Labour party campaign team underlined their commitment to keeping their promises by literally carving them in stone. Article content When the leader, the hapless Ed Miliband, showed up to unveil the eight-foot-tall limestone slab, he turned to his spin doctor and said: “Bob, doesn’t it look a bit like a gravestone?”
Canada is buying a sophisticated radar system from our friends in Australia … at a speed not seen in generations, and all that jazz. First, the news: Canada will spend $2.6-billion to procure an “over-the-horizon” radar system that will (hopefully!) allow anything approaching North America from the North—aircraft, missile, or drone—to be tracked at long ranges. The Australian system is...
Paradoxically, history suggests things go best politically for Premier Doug Ford when things are at their most uncertain for Ontario. Ford’s performance during the first years of the COVID-19 pandemic — when Ontario recorded fewer deaths per capita than neighbouring Quebec, Manitoba, New York and Michigan — ensured his Progressive Conservatives were easily re-elected in 2022.
Israel’s defence attaché is departing for home and will not be replaced at the country’s embassy in Canada – a sign, experts say, of an erosion of bilateral relations with Ottawa as ties remain strained over Gaza. Colonel Ilan Or is returning to Israel at the end of July, the embassy said. The responsibilities will be taken over by a...
As a headline writer, you’re essentially in the business of getting people’s attention. The team at the Globe and Mail certainly hit that mark with a recent column titled “SpaceX IPO makes Elon Musk the first trillionaire. Here’s how to properly hate him.” This spurred all sorts of noisy pushback from Canada’s tech elite, with Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke suggesting...
As we approach the Canada Day launch of summer, much of the attention on Prime Minister Mark Carney and the challenges facing his government is focused on the fate of the CUSMA trade deal and Alberta’s future. But there is another event on the horizon that could both deliver disproportionate impact on these ongoing policy and political files and provide...
Donald Trump has made the Gordie Howe International Bridge into a big, beautiful monument to the futility of trying to jointly advance the economic interests of his country and ours. There are so many reasons for Canadians to be furious about Trump blocking the bridge’s opening: the pain to industries that need a faster crossing at the Windsor-Detroit border, the...
For more than a decade, a gray limestone-clad house overlooking the Ottawa River has served as a symbol of Canadian indecision and entropy. The prime minister’s official residence at 24 Sussex Drive had been left to the gnawing of rats because politicians didn’t have the guts to do something about it. Anything.
On Friday Prime Minister Mark Carney announced a national fundraising campaign for the renovation of the prime minister's official residence, 24 Sussex Drive. But is this project long overdue or just another opportunity for political posturing? Political insiders Greg MacEachern, Fred DeLorey and Anne McGrath speak to Power & Politics. The Political Pulse Panel also weighs in on the prime...
The fact the Prime Minister personally favours re-opening the Canadian embassy in Tehran was made crystal clear at a press conference last week
Prime Minister Mark Carney spoke at Holy Blossom Temple in Toronto several weeks ago and denounced antisemitism and stated that, “Unity is not uniformity … our differences are strengths to be nurtured, not risks to be managed.” All Canadians of at least the age of seven have heard similar remarks by public figures, but they do not address the requirement...
With Quebec’s fête nationale of Saint-Jean-Baptiste having launched the province’s pre-election political summer on June 24th, the phoney-war phase of mudslinging and burger flipping ahead of an October 5th election is now underway.
To govern is to choose, the old adage runs. The old adage is wrong. More often, to govern is to straddle. Politicians are disinclined to choose by nature, of course: left unsupervised, they will nearly always prefer guns and butter to guns or butter. But many of the most important issues do not lend themselves to binary, either-or choices. The...
Every good political campaign needs a slogan. Mark Carney may have handed one to the team that will be fighting for Alberta to resist the separatist option this October: “Canada: don’t mess it up.” In a wide-ranging news conference on Thursday, Carney was focused on looking back over his achievements of the past year, but the questions from journalists, naturally...
Canada’s worth fighting for. Alberta does better together with the rest of Canada. And the Oct. 19 referendum in the province is a real choice that could bring on years of uncertainty for Alberta’s economy. None of those points, raised by Prime Minister Mark Carney at a press conference on Thursday, are groundbreaking. But together, the three parts are the...
What’s worse: That Donald Trump wants to break off trade with Canada, or that the U.S. president doesn’t want us to trade with anybody else? Never before as a country have we been so outraged into collective retaliation as we have by America’s rejection of us, its closest trading partner. But whatever we may think of America’s political trajectory, the...
Thanks to the Canada Strong Pass, Canadians can enjoy a more affordable summer. Valid from June 19 to Sept. 7, it provides free admission to all national historic sites and parks operated by Parks Canada, free or reduced admission at national and provincial museums and galleries and free and discounted travel with Via Rail.
Nobody could accuse Mark Carney of lacking intellectual suppleness. A week after enthusiastically endorsing the federal government’s involvement in moves to buy and convert up to 2,500 Vancouver condos that developers can’t unload, on Thursday the prime minister downplayed Ottawa’s role in the scheme. Article content At a press conference to mark the end of the parliamentary session, Carney said...
I imagine Mark Carney was something of an autocrat even in the cradle, issuing directives and insulting subordinates from the earliest age. “Yeah, I’m not feeling this WubbaNub. Got any others?” “This is not a helpful suggestion. Go back and rework it to a different nap time.”
Six years ago, Mark Carney set out to discover his own grand unified theory of everything — or, at least, of why houses became so expensive. Then the governor of the Bank of England, Carney thought there could be a way to align government and bank policy which, borrowing a phrase from Sir Isaac Newton, would “protect the economy from...
They are the behemoths that dot the European landscape. Giant fortresses that have stood for centuries. They were built as defensive bastions to withstand invasions and sieges. Over time, the very isolation, impregnability and fearsome scale of these fortresses suggested an obvious – if less noble – secondary use. And names like Peniche Fortress, north of Lisbon, Marseille’s Château d’If...
Inflation has surged to its highest level in years, Statistics Canada announced Monday, and we can rightly blame U.S. President Donald Trump and his war in Iran for the oil-fueled increase.
It is patently unfair that the Carney government has announced plans to bail out condo developers in British Columbia, without even a mention of the struggling venture capitalists in Ontario, the hedge fund managers in Quebec, and the corporate CEOs in Alberta.
Parliament has risen for the summer, and it is yet again a key time for political parties to tend to all-important local political concerns that ultimately drive the successes or failures of Members of Parliament. For Prime Minister Mark Carney and the Liberals—except for flag waving around the World Cup and big hopes that Canada goes on a run on...
To be a successful leader in politics, you need a few things: a vision for the country, a plan to realize it and an ability to articulate why you are the right person to lead the journey. British prime minister Keir Starmer possesses none of these things. That’s why he’s been forced to resign his post. It’s expected he’ll be...
In economics, the concept of “moral hazard” describes a situation where an individual or institution is more likely to take reckless risks because they do not bear the negative consequences of those risks. It is an idea with which Prime Minister Mark Carney is very familiar, having been a vocal critic of the claim that banks were “too big to...
Donald Trump must enjoy what has now become diplomatic protocol for dealing with him on the world stage — namely, flattery and deference. Mark Carney caught on to it early, calling Trump a “transformational president” during his first White House sit-down with him more than a year ago.
British prime ministers have for the past 65 years had their public image satirized in Private Eye magazine, an often-unflattering pastiche that generally finds its way into the mainstream culture. From the outset of his time in No. 10 Downing Street, Keir Starmer — who on Monday announced plans to resign — was portrayed as a dull, indecisive, overly cautious...
Tom Siddon, who served as a cabinet minister under Prime Minister Brian Mulroney during the Oka crisis and later helped to establish Nunavut, has died. He was 84.
A group pushing for a separation referendum in Alberta has won a partial victory in court. An Alberta Court of Appeal judge ruled on Monday that the signatures on their referendum petition can be counted and verified. Justice Alice Woolley, in a written decision, said not verifying the signatures now could create more problems later on should things change with...
After a hiatus, the popular greener homes program is returning to Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, Quebec and British Columbia. Environment, Climate Change and Nature Minister Julie Dabrusin and Energy Minister Tim Hodgson announced on Monday morning the federal program’s relaunch in the four provinces.
Hunter Biden says the ball is in Canada’s court when it comes to the state of the country’s relationship with the United States going forward. Former U.S. president Joe Biden’s son is back in the spotlight, but this time, for his sometimes-brutal honesty and no-holds-barred social media presence, including social media posts about Canada.
Canada’s electronic eavesdropping agency conducted cyberattacks to disrupt the activities of online foreign criminals who were brokering the purchase and sale of precursor chemicals used to make the opioid fentanyl, according to its latest annual report.
The federal government is moving ahead with its July 6 deadline for public servants to return to the office at least four days a week, even as some departments have announced longer timelines because of a lack of available space. The federal government said in early February that as of July 6, all non-executive employees will be required to work...
The head of the production company behind the hit hockey-romance series Heated Rivalry says he is holding off sending Prime Minister Mark Carney his own Team Canada-style fleece jacket, worn by one of the show’s lead characters, until the future of Ottawa’s online streaming law is clear and enacted “for real.”
Choosing the winning bid for Canada’s next generation submarine fleet is coming down to the wire. Analysts say the race between the two contenders, German-Norwegian consortium ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems (TKMS) and South Korea’s Hanwha, is too close to call. Prime Minister Mark Carney has previously said that a decision would be made before the end of June, but sources tell...
It's going to be a blockbuster kind of week for the Canadian economy. The deadline to renew CUSMA will (almost assuredly) swoosh by on Wednesday, accompanied by a chorus of commentary and recriminations. Before we get there, we will get the latest GDP numbers for April on Tuesday. The economy has been struggling to find its footing. We experienced back-to-back...
On July 1, Prime Minister Mark Carney is expected to mark Canada Day with a speech in Edmonton invoking national unity as Alberta weighs its place in Canada. It’s not only Canada’s 159th birthday as a nation, overshadowed though it may be by the twin threats of emboldened separatist movements in Alberta and Quebec.
Cabinet ministers who once appeared relaxed and complacent under Justin Trudeau are now 'on their toes' under Prime Minister Mark Carney, say some Liberal MPs. Prime Minister Mark Carney appears to be running the first cabinet government in about 40 to 50 years, but it’s unclear if it will continue in the medium and long term, especially if and when...
The Conservative party of Canada may have been the first political party in this country to use AI-generated footage for an ad, but it won’t be the last according to experts. The party released a video on social media June 5 depicting people lining up at a food bank, losing their jobs and losing their homes with the punchline that...
Toronto's annual Pride Parade on Sunday drew throngs of rainbow-clad partygoers, including the prime minister. Mark Carney joined the parade briefly with Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow, shaking hands and taking selfies with the roaring crowds lining Yonge Street. As he marched, Carney goaded revellers wielding water guns to drench him. The prime minister stumbled back as he was sprayed with...
Indigenous community members have encouraged federal officials to reflect on how the Order of Canada can overcome its "deep colonial symbolism and associations," says an internal government presentation on efforts to modernize the Canadian honours system. The April presentation, prepared for the Order of Canada Advisory Council, says recent feedback indicates that accepting the honour "could bring feelings of discomfort...
Canada is pushing for safe, equitable adoption of artificial intelligence at the United Nations, where Ottawa's ambassador says AI is a significant priority for his team. "AI governance is something that the UN has to do -- has a responsibility to do," David Lametti told The Canadian Press. "The UN remains critically important, (it) remains perhaps the only institution in...
TABER -- A pro-separatist billboard in a southern Alberta town of 10,000 was the focal point for a rally on Sunday calling for the province's independence.
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is calling on Parliament to probe Ottawa's proposal to convert unsold condominium units in British Columbia into affordable housing. In a letter to the House ethics committee, Poilievre says a program to possibly help finance the purchase of 2,200 vacant condos amounts to a "condo bailout" for developers, bankers and investors. "Far from making housing more...
Canadian immigration lawyers say they are in “disbelief” over how the federal government has dealt with a wave of citizenship certificate suspensions involving so-called “Lost Canadians,” and the lack of answers about why the recalls occurred.
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is calling for an “urgent meeting” of the House of Commons Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics to investigate what he calls the “condo bailout” announced by the government earlier this month. In a letter to the committee chair obtained by CTV News, Poilievre accuses Prime Minister Mark Carney and his government of...
U.S. Ambassador to Canada Pete Hoekstra insists U.S. President Donald Trump is not taking aim at Canada with his tariff policy and past comments about not needing anything from one of its closest allies. “We put tariffs on every country in the world. We did not take aim at Canada,” Hoekstra said in an exclusive broadcast interview with CTV News...
With Quebec’s provincial election approaching this fall, and the Parti Québécois pledging a separation referendum if it forms government, political insiders say Prime Minister Mark Carney should recruit high-profile candidates for three upcoming federal byelections in the province to make the federalist case to Quebecers. “You can sort of pre-position a couple of people who are able to play a...
U.K. party policies play a factor, and MPs are more likely to rebel. Despite having nearly identical parliamentary systems, Canada has avoided the kind of prime ministerial parade that has befallen the U.K. in the past decade. Political watchers point to the Brexit vote as the key moment that led to half a dozen leaders occupying 10 Downing Street in...
B.C. Premier David Eby spoke with the media on Saturday before catching a flight to China in hopes of diversifying trade relationships. Eby said this trip, among others to Japan, South Korea, and Singapore, is part of a provincial goal to double international trade in the next decade. “We want to double our international trade beyond where it is right...
A feud that heated up after spicy social media posts from Premier Danielle Smith and the mayor of Alberta's largest city about noise during the Calgary Stampede has been quashed. "This compromise provides greater certainty for this year's Stampede," Smith said in a Saturday morning post on X ahead of the 10-day rodeo and music festival starting on July 3...
Nova Scotia's offshore energy regulator has released the names of companies that have qualified to bid on building Canada's first offshore wind farms. The Canada-Nova Scotia Offshore Energy Regulator identified six companies and two groups of companies that won approval after taking part a review process between October 2025 and January of this year.
U.S. Ambassador to Canada Pete Hoekstra says when it comes to Canada’s ongoing F-35 fighter jet review, a potential mixed fleet will not put Norad in jeopardy. “One decision will not kill Norad,” Hoekstra said in an exclusive broadcast interview with CTV News chief political correspondent Vassy Kapelos. “What we’re always going to look for is what is the total...
As Alberta pushes ahead with a fall referendum to decide whether an actual referendum on separating from Canada is worth the effort, Canada's former U.S. ambassador says she doesn't think "serious Americans" will get involved in the debate. "My understanding of this, when I left, was that there really wasn't a serious interest in interfering in this very important domestic...
Federal Jobs Minister Patty Hajdu is looking for ways to turn down the temperature between unions and employers -- particularly when labour acrimony threatens to disrupt critical industries. Unions have seized on Ottawa's review of federal labour laws to make the case for the right to strike and reaffirm their opposition to government intervention in bargaining. Hajdu said in an...
A Montreal-based advocate for asylum seekers says Canada should expect a new wave of Haitians trying to enter from the United States after a court decision allowing the Trump administration to end legal protections for migrants fleeing violence and natural disasters in Haiti and Syria. Frantz Andre says he knows of several people who are making the journey north from...
The federal government has ordered life-extension work on the air force's aging CH-146 Griffon helicopters put on hold, CBC News has learned. The multimillion-dollar refit has run into technical issues, say sources who spoke on a confidential basis because they weren't authorized to speak to the media. There's concern among defence planners whether Bell Textron Canada Ltd., located out of...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Supreme Court on Monday ruled that states can count ballots that arrive after Election Day, a persistent target of President Donald Trump.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Kara Swisher is everywhere.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Americans have grown less proud of their country's history or the way its democracy works over the past decade, according to a new AP-NORC poll.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Holiday gatherings and major life events have come with an empty seat. Certain dates on the calendar meant time at a cemetery, standing before granite stones.
Israel’s defence attaché is departing for home and will not be replaced at the country’s embassy in Canada – a sign, experts say, of an erosion of bilateral relations with Ottawa as ties remain strained over Gaza. Colonel Ilan Or is returning to Israel at the end of July, the embassy said. The responsibilities will be taken over by a...
Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand says Canada has no current plans to open embassies in Iran or Venezuela. Anand says Canada relies on Italy to connect with Canadians in Iran but admits using an intermediary isn't the most efficient way of dealing with consular issues. Her comments come after a group called the Iranian Justice Collective said it had heard...
Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand says the situation in Venezuela following two catastrophic earthquakes is "horrific" and Canada will look to expand its humanitarian support for the region. The rare double earthquakes struck northern Venezuela 39 seconds apart on Wednesday, and officials reported Friday the death toll had risen to 920, with more than 3,360 people injured.
Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand is meeting with her Turkish counterpart in Ottawa today, ahead of the NATO summit next month in Turkey's capital Ankara. Turkish Foreign Affairs Minister Hakan Fidan is visiting Toronto and Ottawa after pitching a strategic partnership with Canada. Turkey is Canada's military ally by virtue of its NATO membership and Fidan has echoed the Canadian...
As an Iranian diaspora group warns Canada could be looking to re-establish relations with Tehran, Prime Minister Mark Carney says Canada is "at a disadvantage" in countries like Iran where it lacks a diplomatic presence. Commenting today on the deadly earthquakes in Venezuela, the prime minister said that not having diplomatic relations with Venezuela's government makes it hard to respond...
For Canada and its allies and partners, the main response to Russian claims of Arctic dominance is to see through their own icebreaker and Arctic economic development plans.
China continues to find creative ways to infiltrate and influence the West. When low-cost Chinese electric vehicles entered Western markets, they were an immediate success and sales soared. Soon after, engineers discovered that Chinese manufacturers could surveil these vehicles (Financial Times 2026). Western engineers also found kill switches in Chinese electric buses that could be used to disrupt transportation (Associated...
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The Liberal government in Ottawa is in the middle of a review of the Access to Information Act, required by law every five years. It’s being run by officials at Treasury Board Secretariat, a powerful central agency. So much is happening in Ottawa these days that the exercise is flying below the radar, like a ground-hugging drone.
The Parti Québécois just released its Livre bleu, a 524-page document detailing its arguments in favor of Quebec’s independence. The separatist party is inviting Quebecers to provide suggestions for a second version, I’d have a lot of recommendations, of course - on all topics - but in this short text, I’ll stick to the parts where I’m specifically criticized by...
Prime Minister Mark Carney’s own department, the Privy Council Office (PCO), has become the bad boy of freedom of information in Canada.
Nuclear power has gone from cursed to charmed in one of the great technological and energy comeback stories of the 21st century. Canada, particularly Ontario, is a player in two of the world’s leading ‘big nuclear’ technologies and is an early mover in small modular reactors, too. Saskatchewan has more uranium than anyone. Here’s an industry where the words Canadian...
As Liberal MPs moan anonymously that Prime Minister Mark Carney is a mean boss, his defenders say it’s just high performance expectations (unlike the last leader’s). But, as our Political Hack panel looks back on the parliamentary sitting just ended, they question Carney’s own performance: his damage to Canada-U.S. trade negotiations; broken promises on affordability; and a disgraceful bailout for...
Billions of dollars of illegal wildlife parts get trafficked around the world each year. Think elephant tusks, rhino horns, polar bear pelts and even some rare plants, like wild ginseng. One of the countries caught up in these criminal networks is Canada.
The rules of the game with Canada's most important partner have been tossed aside, and the outcome of the next round is as murky as Donald Trump's reflecting pool. Former Deputy Prime Minister John Manley joins Peter Donolo and Jeremy Kinsman to discuss Canada's leverage with Trump's America, from trade and Iran to the G7 and the Gordie Howe Bridge...
